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- ISBN 9780520305243
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jul 2019
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Holding On reveals the results of an unprecedented ten-year study of justice-involved families, rendering visible the lives of a group of American families whose experiences are too often lost in large-scale demographic research. Using new data from the Multi-site Family Study on Incarceration, Parenting, and Partnering—a groundbreaking study of almost two thousand families, incorporating a series of couples-based surveys and qualitative interviews over the course of three years—Holding On sheds rich new light on the parenting and intimate relationships of justice-involved men, challenging long-standing boundaries between research on incarceration and on the well-being of low-income families. Boldly proposing that the failure to recognize the centrality of incarcerated men’s roles as fathers and partners has helped to justify a system that removes them from their families and hides that system’s costs to parents, partners, and children, Holding On considers how research that breaks the false dichotomy between offender and parent, inmate and partner, and victim and perpetrator might help to inform a next generation of public policies that truly support vulnerable families.
Tasseli McKay is Social Science Researcher with the Victimization and Resilience program at RTI International.
Megan Comfort is Senior Research Sociologist with the Youth, Violence Prevention, and Community Justice program at RTI International. She is the author of Doing Time Together.
Christine Lindquist is Director of the Corrections and Reentry Research program at RTI International.
Anupa Bir is Senior Director of the Center for Advanced Methods Development at RTI International.
Megan Comfort is Senior Research Sociologist with the Youth, Violence Prevention, and Community Justice program at RTI International. She is the author of Doing Time Together.
Christine Lindquist is Director of the Corrections and Reentry Research program at RTI International.
Anupa Bir is Senior Director of the Center for Advanced Methods Development at RTI International.
